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JP1 Version 12 JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 - Definition Assistant Description, Operator's Guide and Reference


B.2 Character limitations

The characters that can be used in JP1/AJS3 - Definition Assistant vary depending on the type of character encoding used for the connected JP1/AJS3 - Manager.

The following table explains the limitations for characters used in JP1/AJS3 - Definition Assistant.

Table B‒3: Character limitations

Characters that can be used

Characters that cannot be used

  • Alphanumeric characters

  • JIS X 0208-1990

  • Single-byte katakana characters

  • The following symbols:

    ! # $ % + @

    including:

    - (hyphen)

    . (period)

    _ (underscore)

  • The 3rd level and 4th level Kanji characters added in JIS 2004

  • External characters, platform-dependent characters

  • If the character encoding used in JP1/AJS3 - Manager is EUC, the following characters cannot be used.

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  • If the character encoding used in JP1/AJS3 - Manager is UTF-8, the following characters cannot be used

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Note that in JP1/AJS3 - Definition Assistant, the following characters cannot be used in a unit name:

Important

When the definition information management template is to be started from JP1/AJS3 - View, the following characters cannot be used in a unit name regardless of what setting is specified for the environment settings parameter RESTRICT-CHAR-RANGE:

" & ' * < > ? [ \ ] ^ ` { | } ~

For details about characters that cannot be used in JP1/AJS3, see the topic that describes the language types and character sets used in the system in the JP1/Automatic Job Management System 3 System Design (Configuration) Guide.